- Promoted pod resource `limit/request` metrics to stable. ([#115454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115454), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))
- Removed AWS kubelet credential provider. Please use the external kubelet credential provider binary named `ecr-credential-provider` instead. ([#116329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116329), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Node, Storage and Testing]

- Kubelet: The `--azure-container-registry-config` flag has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release, please use `--image-credential-provider-config` and `--image-credential-provider-bin-dir` to setup acr credential provider instead. ([#118596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118596), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Node]

### Auth

### Feature

- A client-go metric, rest_client_exec_plugin_call_total, has been added to track total calls to client-go credential plugins. ([#98892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98892), [@ankeesler](https://github.com/ankeesler)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/#aggregated-clusterroles), introduced in 1.9, graduated to stable status with no changes in 1.11, and [client-go credential plugins](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#client-go-credential-plugins)  graduated to beta status, while also adding support for obtaining TLS credentials from an external plugin.

Kubernetes 1.11 also makes it easier to see what's happening, as audit events can now be annotated with information...

    * The `kube-cloud-controller-manager` flag `--use-service-account-credentials` is now honored consistently, regardless of whether `--service-account-private-key-file` was specified.
* Fix credentials providers for docker sandbox image. ([#51870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51870), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

    * The `kube-cloud-controller-manager` flag `--use-service-account-credentials` is now honored consistently, regardless of whether `--service-account-private-key-file` was specified.
* Fix credentials providers for docker sandbox image. ([#51870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51870), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

 - CSINode initialization does not crash kubelet on startup when APIServer is not reachable or kubelet has not the right credentials yet. ([#89589](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89589), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

 - CSINode initialization does not crash kubelet on startup when APIServer is not reachable or kubelet has not the right credentials yet. ([#89589](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89589), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

using an extra executable.

### Kubelet Credential Provider Graduates to Beta

Originally released as Alpha in Kubernetes 1.20, the kubelet's support for
[image credential providers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider/)
has now graduated to Beta.
This allows the kubelet to dynamically retrieve credentials for a container image registry